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Hector Amaya
Hector Amaya is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Previously, he taught in the Communication Studies Department at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. His research, writing, and teaching engages with the areas of global media, Latin American film, comparative media studies, and Latinas/os media studies. His first book, Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010) is a comparative study of film reception of Cuban film, cultural criticism, and citizenship in Cuba and the United States from the 1960s to 1985. His second book, currently under review, is titled Citizenship Excess: Latinas/os, Transnationalism, Media, and the Ethics of Nation. This book analyses Bush-era nativisms targeting Latinas/os and the way nativism shapes current political and media cultures.
He has also published on documentary and race, masculinity and race in Mexico, Latinas/os in the US military, and feminism and breast cancer art.